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Turkish, Balkan interior ministers in Brussels for migration talks

EU interior ministers will hold meetings on migration with their counterparts from EU neighbourhood states on the margins of a council Thursday. Ministers from Macedonia and Serbia will join their German, Austrian, Slovenian and Croatian colleagues for breakfast. The Turkish minister will lunch with all 28 EU ministers.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.